Process and apparatus for cooling sugar and like material



Dec. 27, 1927.

G. L. LONSDALE PROQESS AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING SUGAR AND LIKE MATERIAL 1 2 sheets-sum 1 Filed 0012.19, 1927 Dec. 27, 1927. 1,654,133

G. L. LONSDALE PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING SUGAR AND LIKE MATERIAL Filed Oct. 19, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 dnsa a/e J 2 7 7 w/h M What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Apparatus for cooling sugar and like material comprising a rotatable Water jacketed cylinder, runners on said cylinders, stay rods'eonneeting said runners, a toothed pinion on said cylinder meshing with a toothed pinion on a driving shaft, a thrust roller or rollers in contact with a runner at the feed end of said cylinder, sugar feeding means to the said cylinder and discharge means to said cylinder, and sugar agitating means Within the saidcylinder.

2. The process of cooling sugar to remove the heat incident to its pulverization comprising forming the sugar to be treated successively in piles by pouring it from one position to another on a cooling surface, causing it to fall in a thin film during pouring, for the purpose of air cooling: the su ggar. and causing the order of deposit ot the out verulent particles to he alternatetr i'c'" so that the sugar on the top ot the first piie will be at the bottom of the next. than: pro nioting uniform cooling thrmlg 'hout thrratire mass: oi? the sugar.

3. In apparatus or roolin;- sugar, :2 rutatahle jacketed cylinder in which said sugar is treated, the inner Wall ot' said cylinder hm ing formed "with hollow rihs extend ng ion gitudinall of said cylinder. the hollow: of said ribs being 't'reely open to the jachet space, and means tor adniittiu;- tiI('tIlHi' l' cooling medium to said jacket spar-r.

Signed at Sydney, Nrrv South \Yahm r-\ustralia, this first day (it hcptemhvr. 11L.

GEORGE LAMBE RT LONS D LI). 

